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1954 · PDF PAGE 65

Magick Without Tears

…ans. There is thus an inexhaustible supply of any particular kind of force that we may need. (Illustration: Heat may be transformed into light and power by using it to drive dynamos. The vibrations of the air may be used to kill men by so ordering them in speech as to inflame war-like passions. The

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1954 · PDF PAGE 545

Magick Without Tears

…Helena Petrovna, 85, 86,87,98,297,359 Blitz (London) episode, 384 Bodleian Library, Oxford, 321 Boccaccio, 137 Bodhisattva,. 220 Body of Light, 286, 494 Bog, 205,407 Boleskine, 168, 321 Book of the Dead, 19 Book 4, details on, 314, 325 Book 4, part I, 56, 149,503 -part 11,155,167,169 -part III, see "Magick" -of Thoth, 25, 52,204,227, 229,306,412,493

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1913 · PDF PAGE 138

The Book of Lies

…r this: ‘Wein the world of woe who stray Lift up our hearts to Thee and pray: Turn all our pain to virgin might, And all our sorrow into light!’ May his enemies learn from these words to ‘lift up’ their hearts with him.”—Euzglish Review. ‘**“ Mortadello’ is a drama of old Venice. It dis- plays a similar fearlessness of treatment. The theme is bitterly cynical, yet there prevails against the cynicism a just appreciation or poetic values. Mr. Crowley has not shirked the ugliness of his theme. He had no temptation to do so. For he holds life cheap…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ure monitor to them that seek Wisdom at her breast: for in the uniting of elements of opposite polari- ties is there a glory of heat, of light, and of electricity. Thus also in mankind do we behold the spiritual fruit of poetry and all genius, arising from the seed of what is but an ani- mal gesture, in the estimation of such as are schooled in Philosophy. And it is to be noted strongly that the most violent and divine passions are those between people of utterly unharmonious natures. But now I would have you to know that in the mind are no suc…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 66

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…end in the flame of the pyre, O my Soûl ! “Thy God is like the cold emptiness of the utmost heaven, into which thou radiatest thy little light. “When Thou shalt know me, O empty God, my flame shall utterly expire in thy great N.O.X.” Liber Lapidis Lazuli. i. 36- 40. o. Be seated in thine Asana, preferably the Thunderbolt. It is essential that the spine be vertical. 1. In this practice the cavity of the brain is the Yonij the spinal cord is the Lingam. 2. Concentrate thy thought of adoration in the brain. 3. Now begin to awaken the spine in this…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 321

Magick Without Tears

…dark, and leap at once. "The Voice of my Higher Soul said unto me: Let me enter the Path of Darkness; peradventure thus I may attain the Light." Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally yours, 666 P.S. Let me adduce an example of the way in which the serious Aspirant bends to the oar. This is not boasting as if the facts denoted superlative excellence; they speak. The only comment is that if such conduct is not normal and universal, it ought to be. Yet no! I would add this: that I have not yet heard of anyone who has attained to any result…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 216

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ook) and ultimately an Invocation of Typhon when the First Magical War of the Aeon of Horus was declared. This essay throws a very clear light upon my position. I could not deny the facts of Ceremonial Magick. It is impossible to explain why a dog squeals when you hit him with a stick; but we do not therefore deny that this happens, or at least that there is some impression of some such kind somewhere. I was in precisely the position of those philosophers who were driven to the theory of causality and said that there was no cause why an apple s…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 79

The Goetia

…get thee; let the face of God forget the face of N, Dag iparanu lubiftias, Jada bamesa, gobus, Das tarianu piape balata who will not see light: let God forget, Isay _ that shall be the balance of justice poresa nore jifipabe od telokake od caosagi, Do-perefst. over the sons of living breathand death andthe world, by fire. YE ADDRESSE UNTO YE SPIRIT ON HYS COMING. gwicama! Ol DO wvaukahbo tlasa ta iehe tot3a Das ge-Darebesa! Behold ! I confound thee as thouart he that obeys not! gpicama kikale emetajisa Solomon Das ol polakame pujo ji-mi- Behold…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 301

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ted to this path is very rightly the 16th Key—the Tower ; which we have seen in the 4°=7° Ritual represents a tower struck by a flash of lightning, symbolising the Tower of Babel struck by the wrath of Heaven, and also the Power of the Triad rushing down and destroying the columns of darkness, the light of Adonai glimmering through the veils and consuming the elementary Rituals of the 1°=10°, 2°=9°, 3°=8°, and 4°=7° grades. In many cases the candidate, it is to be feared, can never have realised the necessity of this destruction of superficial …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 301

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ted to this path is very rightly the 16th Key—the Tower ; which we have seen in the 4°=7° Ritual represents a tower struck by a flash of lightning, symbolising the Tower of Babel struck by the wrath of Heaven, and also the Power of the Triad rushing down and destroying the columns of darkness, the light of Adonai glimmering through the veils and consuming the elementary Rituals of the 1°=10°, 2°=9°, 3°=8°, and 4°=7° grades. In many cases the candidate, it is to be feared, can never have realised the necessity of this destruction of superficial …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 204

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ow crept sufficiently far through the darkness of the black earth to predict a great tree above, and to prophecy concerning a Kingdom of Light and Loveliness; and, as a worm will detect its approach to the earth surface by the warmth of the mould, so did he detect by a sense, new and unknown to him, a world as different from the world he lived in as the world of awakenment differs from the world of dreams. Further, did he grow to understand, that, though as a sustenance to the tree itself one root might not be as im- portant as another, yet tha…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 204

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ow crept sufficiently far through the darkness of the black earth to predict a great tree above, and to prophecy concerning a Kingdom of Light and Loveliness; and, as a worm will detect its approach to the earth surface by the warmth of the mould, so did he detect by a sense, new and unknown to him, a world as different from the world he lived in as the world of awakenment differs from the world of dreams. Further, did he grow to understand, that, though as a sustenance to the tree itself one root might not be as im- portant as another, yet tha…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 124

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…re first con- scious, namely, our own bodies, are the grossest and most unnatural of all falsities. For there is in us all, latent, that Light wherein no error may endure, and It already teaches our instinct to reject first of all those veils which are most closely wrapt about It. Thus also in meditation it is (for many men) most profitable to concentrate the Will to Love upon the sacred centres of nervous force: for they, like all things, are apt images or true reflexions of their semblables in finer spheres: so that, their gross natures being…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 106

The Sword of Song

…l h imself assure you. True, Hegel say s: “Pure being is pure nothing !” and it is true that the infinite heat and cold, joy and sorrow, light and darkness, and all the other pairs of opposites,2 cancel one another out: yet I feel rather afraid of this Absolute ! May be i ts joy and sorrow are represented in phases, just as 0 0 and finity are phas es of an iden-tical expression, and I have an even chance only of being on the right side of the fence! The Buddhist leaves no chances of this kind; in all his categories he is infinitely unextended; …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 21

John Yarker – In Memoriam

…r was not written by Krishnamurti, and on the dis- covery of the preSent imperfect state of their education. These circumstances came to light only during the latter part 2I

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1913 · PDF PAGE 60

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ind them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at tule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. 25. Ye are against the …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 60

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ind them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at tule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. 25. Ye are against the …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 243

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…to add the wisdom of the East to their own large interpretation of Christianity, and who represented in that time a movement towards the light of learning and of science, which has been brought to fruition in our own times by the labours of the Orientalists from Von-Hammer-Purgstall and Sir William Jones to Professor Rhys Davids and Madame Blavatsky, to say nothing of such philosophers as Schopenhauer, on the one hand; and by the heroic efforts of Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, and Spencer, on the other. I have no sympathy with those who cry out agai…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 212

The Law is for All

…not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms. 18. Mercy let be off: damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them! 19. That stele they shall call the Abomination of Desolation; count well its name, & it shall be to you as 718. 20. Why? Because of the fall of Because, that he is not there again. 21. Set up my image in the East: thou shalt buy thee an image which I will show thee, es…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 399

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ropriate to their character. For instance, when a traitor is discovered and put to death on the spot, that would have been comic in full light, but there was only the sudden alarm which broke off the ceremony, the swift inspection, the rush, the gestures of the avenger, the scream and then silence, followed by the dragging of the carrion through the darkness. The illusion was perfect. The ceremony proceeds and no hint is given of its nature. The omens are disquieting, but no one knows their import. Every question is answered in terms which impl…

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